history...help!!?

Question

i have to do a five minute report on a figure in american history who had some important part in it's making. they have to be before 1865, and not a president. please help!!! it's due friday as a midterm. thanks!!!

Answer 1

The easiest would be Benjamin Franklin but you could also use:
Paul Revere
Molly Pitcher
Benadict Arnold
Patrick Henry

Answer 2

My favorite American was General Sherman who should fit your criteria. Here is something to think about. If Sherman had not taken Atlanta, Lincoln would have probably lost the 1864 election and the winner would have made a treaty with the South dividing our nation into three or four nations not capable of being the powerful nation we are now

Answer 3

I cannot think of anyone better or easier to find a 5 minute report than Benjamin Franklin .You can do a summary of basic facts about Franklin and easily come up with a 5 minute report.

Answer 4

Thomas Paine, Ben Franklin, Paul Revere, John Hancock, John Smith, any of the numerous Puritan figures....

Answer 5

Benjamin Franklin-he was never a president.
Betsy Ross-made the flag
Thomas Paine
Look up American History and see what comes up

Answer 6

Sacajawea
William Clark
Meriwether Lewis
James Cook
John Ledyard
Johnny Appleseed
Napoleon Bonaparte (for his sale of Louisiana)

Answer 7

Ben Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Patrick Henry, Henry Clay, any of the early inventors or shipping magnates... c'mon, the question is a gift.

Answer 8

how about spy's during part of the Civil war. there were women who were spy's,and afew even passed off as men,and fought.

Answer 9

How about: Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872) was an American inventor and painter. After a successful career painting in oils (first painting historical scenes and then portraits), Morse built the first American telegraph around 1835 (the telegraph was also being developed independently in Europe).
A telegraph sends electrical signals over a long distance, through wires. In 1830, Joseph Henry (1797-1878) made the first long-distance telegraphic device - he sent an electric current for over a mile on wire that activated an electromagnet, causing a bell to ring.

Morse patented a working telegraph machine in 1837, with help from his business partners Leonard Gale and Alfred Vail. Morse used a dots-and-spaces code for the letters of the alphabet and the numbers (Morse Code was later improved to use dots, dashes and spaces: for example E is dot, T is dash, A is dot-dash, N is dash-dot, O is dash-dash-dash, I is dot-dot, S is dot-dot-dot, etc.). By 1838, Morse could send 10 words per minute. Congress provided funds for building a telegraph line between Washington D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland, in 1843. Morse sent the first telegraphic message (from Washington D.C. to Baltimore) on May 24, 1844; the message was: "What hath God wrought?" The telegraph revolutionized long-distance communications.
*********************************************************************

Or you could go with someone like this.

AMAZING WOMEN in WAR and PEACE

History raves about the heroics of men in war...
but few instances are mentioned in which female courage was displayed.
Yet during every conflict, and the peaceful years between,
they too were there.
versus 1776 .


In the beginning of the America we know there was a Revolution. And although the call to arms was for men, several women donned the uniform of a Revolutionary soldier and fought against the British. One of these women was:

DEBORAH SAMSON**
In October of 1778 Deborah Samson of Plympton, Massachusetts disguised herself as a young man and presented herself to the American army as a willing volunter to oppose the common enemy. She enlisted for the whole term of the war as Robert Shirtliffe and served in the company of Captain Nathan Thayer of Medway, Massachusetts.
For three years she served in various duties and was wounded twice - the first time by a sword cut on the side of the head and four months later she was shot through the shoulder. Her sexual identity went undetected until she came down with a brain fever, then prevalent among the soldiers. The attending physician, Dr. Binney, of Philadelphia, discovered her charade, but said nothing. Instead he had her taken to his own home where she would receive better care. When her health was restored the doctor met with Robert's commanding officer and subsequently an order was issued for Robert Shirtliffe to carry a letter to General Washington. (This may also be "legend" as there is no record of her ever being in Philadelphia.)
When the order came for her to deliver a letter into the hands of the Commander-in-chief, she knew that her deception was over. She presented herself at the headquarters of Washington, trembling with dread and uncertainty. General Washington, to spare her embarrassment, said nothing. Instead he sent her with an aide to have some refreshments, then summoned her back. In silence Washington handed Deborah Samson a discharge from the service, a note with some words of advice, and a sum of money sufficient to bear her expenses home. (This, too, may well be more legend than fact.)


After the war Deborah Samson married Benjamin Gannett of Sharon and they had three children. During George Washington's presidency she received a letter inviting Robert Shirtliffe, or rather Mrs. Gannett, to visit Washington. During her stay at the capital a bill was passed granting her a pension, in addition to certain lands, which she was to receive as an acknowledgment for her services to the country in a military capacity as a Revolutionary Soldier, in part thanks to the efforts of Paul Revere.


**The correct spelling is Samson - inaccurate historians added the letter "P" in later years. There are also several different versions of the story of Deborah Samson, alias Robert Shirtliffe. This one comes from The Women of the American Revolution by Elizabeth F. Ellet, NY, Baker and Scribner, 1848, that's right, eighteen forty eight. In this book Elizabeth Ellet prefaces the story of Deborah Samson with the following:
I have been told that the Female Review about this heroine was not in any measure reliable and that Deborah Samson repeatedly expressed her displeasure at the representation of herself which she did not at all recognize. The following facts respecting her I received from a lady * who knew her personally and has often listened with thrilling interest to the animated description given by herself of her exploits and adventures. * A niece of Captain Tisdale, upon whom Robert attended in the army for some months.

This same accounting appears in Daughters of America, by Phebe A. Hanaford, Boston, B.B. Russell, 1882, in which Miss Hanaford refers to Niles, Principles and Acts of the Revolution and to a book called Mrs. Hales Biography of Distinguished Women.

The first two books mentioned above are in the personal collection of this writer.



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Regardless of which is the authentic version, the fact is that Deborah Samson served her country, in uniform, in the Revolutionary War. Women have done so many unpublicized things that it is time to shed more light on their accomplishments. Did you know that women were torpedoed off the coast of Africa during WWII? Did you know that when Gen MacArthur returned to the Phillipines, Navy nurses were waiting for him on shore and were cut out of the press photos? Did you know that there were women prisoners of war? These pages will continue to light more candles that reflect the deeds and accomplishments of military women...in hopes that future generations will remember that during every conflict Women Were There !!!